Chancellor Angela Merkel raised the issue of alleged National Security Agency spying with President Barack Obama when he visited Berlin in
June.

I wonder if that was before Snowden's revelations, or after? I'll go check it out....

I think before - He leaked the information, primarily to Glenn Greenwald of London's The Guardian, in spring 2013 while employed as an
"infrastructure analyst" at NSA contractor Booz Allen Hamilton.

The Guardian in turn published a series of exposés in June–July 2013 and revealed programs such as the interception of US and European telephone
metadata and the PRISM, XKeyscore, and Tempora Internet surveillance programs. Snowden's disclosures are said to rank among the most significant NSA
security breaches in United States history.

Does anyone here still believe that ES hasn't changed the political/intelligence structure of the entire world?
Even to the point that the leader of the free world, V Putin was able to 'bitchslap' the American strong-arm president.

The revelations of widespread NSA snooping into phone records and the Internet have raised concerns in privacy-conscious Europe, especially since
the Obama administration said the surveillance on the Web has targeted only data from overseas.
Mr. Obama tried to reassure his German hosts that the U.S. hasn’t invaded their privacy.
“This is not a situation in which we are rifling through the ordinary emails of German citizens, or American citizens, or French citizens or anybody
else,” Mr. Obama said.

I'm kind of skeptical about this one. Angela Merkel has already been caught lying about what she knew about the US governments PRISM program and the
German governments involvement(Inbed). It's more likely that this was just put
out there to give the appearance that the German government is doing something and that they haven't really scrapped any agreements. The question
remains, if you had the means (through PRISM) to get all this information or could easily get information on anyone or anything in the world would you
give that up???

It was just an incredibly lame joke. I was joking that this action by the Germans would spark the rise of their "Fourth Reich", but I instead tied
that into a book by author Jim Marrs called "The Rise of the Fourth Reich", in which
he basically outlines the exportation of fascism to the United States following World War II.

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